Sunless (song cycle)

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Sunless (Russian: Без солнца, Bez Solntsa, literally Without Sun) is a song cycle by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in 1874, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.

[edit] Song Titles

The individual song titles are as follows:

1. «В четырех стенах» Enclosed Inside Four Walls
2. «Меня в толпе ты не узнала» Thou Didst Not Know Me in the Crowd
3. «Окончен праздный шумный день» The Noisy Holiday Day is Over
4. «Скучай» Be Bored
5. «Элегия» Elegy
6. «Над рекой» Over the River

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